[GekkePrutser]

Only 7300 years and you've beaten Facebook! :)

But seriously, just joking, I wish you the best of luck! I hope each of these 1000 will bring others and it should go quickly.

I won't join though. For me social media networks are 'been there and done that'. I haven't missed Facebook at all since I left it. After a while it really felt like work to drag myself through that timeline with all those people posting the same tired memes over and over or discussing what they had for lunch. I backed openbook (now okuna) on kickstarter but never really had a reason to come back to it.

I just use LinkedIn now because you can't really do without it (and it's not really social media, more like hyper curated personal PR). And some special-purpose platforms like some work-related public slack circles and Yammer at work.

[tybarra11]

Thank you for the well wishes!

The reputation of social networks has been rightfully soiled. Hopefully, we can do something to change that.

[GekkePrutser]

That's true, I have been put off by Facebook more than I should have. Thinking of what I just wrote above, I do realise that things like Yammer do provide a tangible benefit. Those slack groups even more so. In fact the communication with peers in other businesses is highly valuable and the informality (compared to e.g. LinkedIn) really adds to the information flow.

I think for me where facebook went wrong was when they stopped showing a list of posts of my friends (the 'feed' I think they called it), and started with the 'timeline'. Which meant hiding some posts from my friends and adding other stuff their algorithms thought I would be interested in. Unfortunately they were mostly wrong.

I view social media in terms of pearls:crap ratio. If I find something that makes me smile or really enlightens me, it's a pearl. Everything else I just have to drag through is crap.

Twitter for me has always had a really low ratio. The short messages promote hollow nothingness like what you had for dinner and discourage insightful information. Facebook used to be pretty good at this, until the timeline. This dropped the ratio like a brick and made it all a chore. What got me to leave was the Cambridge Analytica stuff but to be honest the real damage was done long before that.

So yes maybe I will give it another shot :) Sorry if I came across as harsh (not about Slyde but social media in general), but you do have a very good point with facebook having soiled the general reputation of social media. Sadly enough this makes it even harder for you!